Hawaii
By Dave Donnelly
Friday, September 13, 1996
Lemon hearing
is in a squeeze
SOMETHING unique occurred during an arbitration hearing on Hawaii's "Lemon Law." An attorney representing Honda was in town from Oregon to hear a local man's protestations that the Honda he bought was a lemon. He felt he should get his money back, the idea being that nobody in his right mind would want to drive that dud of a car. Arbitrator Ted Riecker decided at one point it was time to examine the evidence first hand, so he moved the hearing to the municipal parking lot at Bishop Street and Beretania Street where the owner had parked it. And when they got there, would you believe the corpus delicti was gone? Apparently somebody felt the car wasn't a lemon, because they had stolen it and driven off. The hearing was recessed until such time as the evidence shows up again, but I'd say prima facie the Honda people seem to have a good case ...
TRIVIA question: Who was the final guest after 30 years of Johnny Carson hosting the "Tonight Show?" Answer: Hawaii's Bette Midler. Now the singer/actress is returning to the scene of the sublime when she guests again on the "Tonight Show" Monday on KHNL-TV, this time with Jay Leno. She'll be plugging her new film, "The First Wives Club." ... This being Sept. 13, naturally everyone is thinking about what to do on - New Year's Eve? That's the feeling at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, where G.M. Noel Trainor has announced the Temptations will be seeing in 1997 on Dec. 31 with tickets scaled from $75 to $125 ...
JUST where is Kapolei, anyway? In a story on Straub opening its 11th facility next week at the Campbell Square Kapolei Building, Pacific Business News ran the story under the header, "Asia-Pacific Briefs" ... Get ready for the new telephone books to have that shrunken look. They'll be reduced in size by over a half inch both up and down and from side to side. I presume that'll mean they'll be thicker, because I can't imagine they could make the print any smaller without issuing magnifying glasses ...
Bos man
PORTOFINO owner Arie Bos won't be serving fine Italian cuisine at the 1998 World's Fair in Portugal as he does at his Haleiwa restaurant. But he will be returning to the fair circuit and has signed a contract to operate six restaurants and snack bars in Lisbon, where the theme for the 1998 World's Fair is "Dive into the Future." This will be Bos' 14th and, in his words, "definitely the last" world's fair. He did his first at the Festival of London in 1951, the first held after World War II. "There was also a coronation or something going on at the time," recalls Bos, "but I was more interested in the fair." Bos will be taking some 30 folks from Hawaii with him to Lisbon to work the restaurants there. He's perhaps best known here for opening Dickens Pub on Kapiolani, a pre-fab English pub that was shipped in from Great Britain and assembled on the spot ...
YOU can see a champion in action tomorrow night at the Ala Wai Paladium. Iolani grad Stephanie Uechi is back from winning the pro-am division of the U.S. Ballroom Competition in Miami Beach. She was in that division because her partner was a professional dancer, while she maintains her amateur status ... Also an amateur - at least he doesn't take money for singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" - is 80-year-old Guido Salmaggi, who'll mark his 19th year of singing the anthem on Citizenship Day Tuesday, when 200 new American citizens are sworn in at the Elks Club by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ...
Catch in the rye
ON the advice of its attorney, Mean Cuisine, the landmark Big Isle eatery known for its breads, has discontinued making rye. There's a movement all across the country with people suing bakeries and restaurants claiming the caraway seeds in rye breads are causing them to lose dental crowns and fillings. Are Danish and Jewish ryes going the way of the Edsel? Is crunchy peanut butter next? Who knows ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. His columns run Monday through Friday. Contact Dave by e-mail at donnelly@kestrok.com.
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